‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine - eviltoast
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.

Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
    1115·
    2 months ago

    Here’s a fun thought, the drug you make fails but doesn’t kill you.

    Instead you now have another life long ailment that cause pain/degradation of daily life.

    Sounds like a great idea.

    • ArchRecord@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      313·
      2 months ago

      As opposed to dying from the disease you already have because the traditional pharmaceutical industry makes the drugs you need out of your price range?

      It won’t be a life long ailment for long if you’re going to die from a lack of care soon anyways.

      • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        No no.

        In addition to

        And stop pretending that the only people to use this are those that would absolutely need it. You know damn well penny pinchers would also go after this

      • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        Commercial drugs are giving people life long diseases on top of the ones they’re trying to cure?

        News to me, got any source?

        • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          The most notorious is probably thalidomide, but there are plenty others on this list of withdrawn drugs that cause long-term side effects.

          • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Very interesting, I wasn’t aware of specifics. Obviously I don’t think it’s impossible, but I would think that the grand majority don’t, while this bootleg technique would have a higher rate of creating worse problems for people already suffering and essentially sealing their fate.

            We need to tackle big pharma for the problem it is: greed and neglect and I don’t think a pirated solution will make that in any way better for people.

            Maybe it does for some but hurts others worse. Which is the same coin as big pharma but worse for some. That’s my perspective, but I hope that an open-source style solution would gain more traction rather than one that’s essentially just ripped music.

            People deserve to be healthy